Back for a new semester

I was so sad to leave Kuching yesterday morning. I was supposed to go back to Kuching on the 23rd of May but in the end, I booked a new air ticket to go back on the 13th of May. I did not reconfirm my flight after ignoring the first air ticket so when I wanted to check in yesterday, I almost went into their waiting list. Luckily the flight was not full. Thank god. My flight was delayed to 910am instead of 820am and due to that, the taxi driver whom I have booked could not pick me at KLIA. In the end, I had to use another taxi to go back to Vista Komanwel. When I reached my place, I had to clean up my dusty room. It took me so long to clean up. Amanda came to find me after that and we went to Carrefour together to eat dinner at Esquire Kitchen. We did some groceries shopping too after that.


Lemon chicken


Esquire bean curd



At night, Rachel picked me to have dinner again at Cheras with her other two friends from UCSI. We went to tesco after that and I did groceries shopping again. I haven't shop for groceries for more than a month. Haha After dropping her friends back, both of us went for supper at sri petaling. Yeah, yesterday was probably the last day of me being so free to go out that way. It is time for me to study hard again.


Laici juice is good for health. haha

Chicken pies

When I was studying in St Teresa, Grace used to help me to buy these chicken pie from her mum's school because the lady used to go there to sell them. Then, when I was studying in St Joseph, I used to rush down from class during recess to buy them because the lady will sell them there even till now. The last time I ate these chicken pies was last year. It has been a year. While I was studying in IMU, i kept thinking of these chicken pies. Haha! Today, after one year of not eating these chicken pies, I bought 20 of them this morning to eat.

A walk to remember

Teluk Pandan Besar and Teluk Pandan Kecil (3.2km)

Bako National Park

Few days ago, I went to Bako National Park with my friends. We wanted to take the petra jaya bus (rm2 per person) there from the open air market but we missed it. In the end, we decided to take a van (rm10 per person) there instead because we did not want to wait for another hour for the next petra jaya bus to arrive. haha It was faster and we reached there at the same time as the petra jaya bus that we missed. The entrance fee was rm10 and the boat trip was rm94 per boat for a return trip.




Boat jetty


It was not 100% safe when I saw this sign




Fisherman boat




Candid shot. haha


Beautiful stones


We finally reached the place after about 15 minutes ride.


The monkeys welcomed us. haha



We had to register ourselves at the registration office before going to the different trails.






Bryan with his middle finger. lol Imagine this future doctor showing this to his future patients. haha


We were lucky enough to get to see this bearded wild boar.







We wanted to see proboscis monkeys and the beach so we took the Tanjung Paku trail.
It was 1.6km.



Gerald said this was an animal pornography




Pokok nibung (see all the sharp thorns on the trunk)








We chose 3 trails (Teluk Paku, Teluk Pandan Besar and Teluk Pandan Kecil) and registered ourselves under those 3 trails. Considering the stamina that Pauline and I have, we were so exhausted and we felt like dying after going through the first trail. haha! We ended up sitting in the canteen instead.



As I was walking back to the boat jetty, I saw this

Fresh, hot and moist (I think it was from the monkey)




We managed to catch the petra jaya bus to go back. It was indeed a great day. haha

Mountain trek

Few weeks ago, we suddenly had this idea to climb Mount Santubong. I have never climbed any mountain before except for Mount Singai. Even then, I did not climb till the summit. After deciding whether to climb Mount Santubong or not for a few days, we finally went to climb it this morning. We started our journey from Kuching at 7.30am after having breakfast together at Hui Sing. We reached there about 8.15am. We wanted to take the steeper but shorter route but it was not safe to park the car at that short cut area. In the end, we had to take the longer route. We all paid rm1 each as an entrance fee.


Bryan was so ever ready. He even brought a parang (something which never came across my mind when I was packing my bag)


Our ah beng guide





Thanks to Xu Vin for borrowing us the mosquito repellent. There were so many insects in the jungle. haha We managed to put on that before starting to go into the jungle. There is no toilet in the jungle so yeah, I spent so much to go to the toilet first too.


I paid rm2 to go to the toilet in KLCC too but in Mount Santubong, there was no wet tissue or body shop products to use in the toilet.

Bryan used his parang to cut down the small tree trunks to make walking sticks for us.






Naruto

There was no proper trail at all but this..



Wild mushrooms


By the waterfall at F5




Bryan started to play with pebbles




Frog


Stick insect

We managed to climb till F5 and then, I felt so exhausted... I drank 2 bottles of water and I felt like giving up. Haha Well, I did give up in the end and I managed to climb till F5 only. It was actually very far. To reach the summit, we have to climb till F15. It looked so far away to me. I was very happy that I reached 1/3 of the mountain. Haha Luckily I did not climb any further because it was so tiring to climb down. It was very tough too. Steep and slippery. Only certain areas have ropes to hold. I fell down a few times (oh well it has been a long time since I fell down so its ok haha!) Besides, it was a new experience to slip and fall in the jungle. haha


Our ah beng guide K.O in the end too. It was his 5th time climbing Mount Santubong and he said it was his first time that he did not reach the summit. I guess it was because of me. Haha

Even though it was very tiring, I had so much fun climbing and it was very worth it. hehe